Tag: Erin McKean

  • The Linguistics of JavaScript – Erin McKean (Wordnik) keynote

    From Fluent 2015: “Javascript is Esperanto that does something.” Constructed languages — conlangs — are artificially-created languages, a category which includes Esperanto, Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki, and yes, Javascript. Can thinking about Javascript the way we think about other human languages help us be better coders, or at least write more readable code? About Erin McKean…